University of Massachusets Athletics
Men's Basketball
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Email:
- asbergeron@umass.edu
Tony Bergeron enters his second season as an assistant coach on Matt McCall’s staff in 2020-21. Bergeron joined the Minuteman program after winning over 400 games coaching prep and high school basketball, most recently at Woodstock Academy (Conn.).
During his first year with the program in 2019-20, Bergeron helped guide the Minutemen to a three-win improvement from the prior campaign with a 14-17 overall record, including an 8-10 mark in league play to finish the year with their most conference wins since the 2014-15 season to earn the No. 8 seed in the A-10 Tournament, its highest seed since 2015. UMass was playing some of its best basketball of the season, with wins in four of its final six games of the regular season, until the Atlantic 10 Tournament was cancelled due to COVID-19.
Led by freshman Tre Mitchell, who became the sixth player in team history and first since 2004 to be named the Atlantic 10 Rookie of the Year, UMass earned a first-round bye to the Atlantic 10 Tournament for the first time since 2016 and won 11 games at the Mullins Center. Mitchell set the UMass rookie record for field goals in a season with 206, was nine points away from breaking the program record for freshman points in a season, and was a six-time A-10 Rookie of the Week selection, the most for a Minuteman since 2004.
At Woodstock, Bergeron coached the Centaurs to a 38-2 record during his final season in 2018-19 as the team jumped to a No. 2 national ranking after posting a 35-5 record during 2017-18. He was also the program director of the Prep Gold and Blue teams at Woodstock.
Bergeron made stops at Commonwealth Academy from 2012-17 after guiding East Longmeadow to its only Western Massachusetts Championship in 2010. Prior to that, he led American Christian Academy (Pa.) and Wings Academy (N.Y.) to USA Today Top-25 rankings and helped The MacDuffie School to a NEPSAC Class E title. For nearly 15 years, Bergeron worked as a program director for the Five-Star Basketball Camp, a camp that has helped produce over 500 NBA and over 10,000 Division I players.
Bergeron graduated from The King’s College in 1994 with a bachelor’s degree in Physical Education.
